What are your special holiday drinks?

Will you be serving egg nog, punch, wines, or perhaps side cars? Perhaps real or pretend martinis will be served chez you. Or maybe a shot and a beer? Possibly you will be going non alcoholic. What special drinks will you be serving or quaffing this holiday season? Is there a special drink that looms large in your holiday plans?

My Wife's Grandfather's punch

One of sour
Two of sweet
Three of Strong
Four of weak



Lemon
honey
whiskey
water / ice


I tend to do 1.5 of sweet

That sounds good. I am thinking of raspberry cosmopolitans.

toria wrote:That sounds good. I am thinking of raspberry cosmopolitans.

IIRC, that is was my FABULOUS Uncle serves

Here are some sweet drinks that look to be cookie themed.

http://celebrationsathomeblog.com/2009/ ... ssert.html

Tom & Jerrys!

Are Tom and Jerry's made with raw eggs? That is what the recipes seem to indicate. I guess the alcohol in them would kill any bacteria??? Hopefully. They do sound good. A little like egg nog?

If raw eggs worry you, just use pasteurized eggs. Alcohol does inhibit growth of and eventually will kill many types of bacteria, but it may take days to do so.

I love homemade egg nog sans alcohol it's the perfect Christmas milkshake.

Jeannie's Brandy Alexanders
Christmas Eve nightcap and Christmas dinner after dinner drink
Chocolate ice cream
Chocolate syrup
Cream de Cacao
Brandy
pour contents into blender and add milk to get to a think milkshake consistency
Fresh grated nutmeg on top as a garnish

I plan to make egg nog with brandy from scratch next week for a weekly cocktail development club I'm part of. I will base it heavily off of Morgenthaler's technique here:
http://www.smallscreennetwork.com/video ... d-egg-nog/

Cheers!

I never liked egg nog and haven't even tried it in years, it's not something my wife craves either, so I'm not exposed to it very often.

For some reason, a couple of weeks ago, I decided I wanted to try to make some from scratch, with real ingredients......



We're hooked. Maybe it was the shot of Jack we added, but it will be made again in the very near future. Don't tell the food police we used un-pasturized/uncooked ingredients.

Tim

Homemade eggnog really is so much better. We had a bottle of Evan Williams egg nog around for the holidays, but that's just too sickly sweet and heavy for my tastes. That's the great thing about making it yourself: make it as sweet and alcoholic as you like it, balance the cream and milk to the richness you like, and reach for whatever spirits capture your fancy. (I especially like a bit of Yukon Jack or Becherovka but into my eggnog, too. They both have that Christmas spice sort of mixture of flavors in them.) And, yeah, we too just use regular eggs in ours.

The homemade eggnog looks great.

For our holiday gathering, I made hot buttered rum. It's my favorite winter drink.

Thanksgiving and Christmas always meant many many batches of Whiskey Sours. Family is spread out a lot now and last of the older generation deceased so I haven't had one in about 6 + years.

The old folks in my family would drink Old Fashioneds or Manhattans. At one point my mom would drink Rob Roys. One aunt who did not like them would bring a Pink Lady for herself in a jar to the house so she could have her own drink she liked. I doubt anyone in my immediate family would make anything like that on hand because they generally were too hard core.

While going through all my loose recipes and weeding out things I know now I'll never make, I stumbled across a recipe from the Trib for nog. I modified it slightly and it was so tasty and so much cheaper, I'll never bother with store brand again.

12 eggs
1 to 1-1/4 cups sugar
6 cups skim milk
1 cup cream
1-1/2 vanilla beans

Whisk in large bowl until well blended. Pour into two quart-size containers (I used Chinese takeout tupperware). Shake vigorously before serving; sprinkle with nutmeg.

I also realized that fresh nutmeg does provide a nice, much different taste than bottled. Thank you, Spice House.

I later found a recipe that was basically the same but called for tossing everything in the blender with three overripe bananas. Since I had that very amount in my freezer, I threw a batch of that together too. Pretty good! That one separates even worse, and I'll probably never bother making it again, but it was an interesting twist (and another that would be equally tasty with rum).